Italy enacts ban on lab-produced meat

ROME, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Italy has become the first country in the world to ban the production, sale and import of cultivated meat -- a term derived from the way it is produced by the cultivation of animal cells rather than through the slaughter of animals.

The ban also extends to the use of words referring to traditional meat products, such as "salami" and "steak," for marketing plant-based meat substitutes.